No amount of falls will really undo us if we keep picking our- selves up each time. We shall of course be very muddy and tattered children by the time we reach home. But the bathrooms are all ready, the towels put out, & the clean clothes are in the airing cupboard. The only fatal thing is to lose one’s temper and give it up. It is when we notice the dirt that God is most present in us; it is the very sign of His presence.
From The Collected Letters of C.S. Lewis, Volume II
Compiled in Words to Live By
Compiled in Words to Live By
The Collected Letters of C. S. Lewis, Volume II: Family Letters 1905-1931. Copyright © 2004 by C. S. Lewis Pte. Ltd. All rights reserved. Used with permission of HarperCollins Publishers. Words to Live By: A Guide for the Merely Christian. Copyright © 2007 by C. S. Lewis Pte. Ltd. All rights reserved. Used with permission of HarperCollins Publishers.
In order to properly pick ourselves, we must try to understand how and why we fell; learn from the fall and turn away from that which tripped us. It is in this falling and getting up that we fully experience human existence. It is also when we truly experience spiritual existence and communion with God. Verily, if humans could live without falling, we would likely think we had no need for God.
Falling up,
Z gardener
Good Morning Garden 
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